In Part 3, explore how the Little Ice Age’s harsh climate and societal struggles fueled fear and superstition, leading to widespread witch hunts. Discover the chilling connection between climate ...

Explore the Little Ice Age, a period of dramatic climate change that reshaped societies, economies, and cultures across the globe.

Rockfall frequency in the Mont-Blanc massif has doubled since the Little Ice Age, with erosion rates increasing from 2.2mm/yr to over 4.1mm/yr between 2006 and 2011.

Land clearing and logging slash fed serial conflagrations, which blew up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – the waning decades of the Little Ice Age. This havoc inspired the federal ...